Peter Bay – Past Concerts
Peter Bay became Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra in 1998. He is also Conductor of the Bravo! Big Sky Classical Festival Orchestra (MT) and Arizona Philharmonic.
Maestro Bay has appeared with more than 80 different orchestras, including the National, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Jersey, North Carolina, San Antonio, Tucson, West Virginia, Colorado, Hawaii, Sarasota, Fort Worth, Bochum (Germany), Carinthian (Austria), Lithuanian National, and Ecuador National Symphonies, the Minnesota and Algarve (Portugal) Orchestras, the Louisiana, Buffalo, Arizona, Rhode Island and Boca del Rio (Mexico) Philharmonics, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman (Postcard from Morocco) and Aspen (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Opera Theaters, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Summer music festival appearances have included Aspen and Music in the Mountains (CO), Grant Park and Ravinia (IL), Round Top (TX), OK Mozart (OK) and Skaneateles (NY). In June 2018, he led performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass as part of the Bernstein100Austin celebration.
Peter is the primary conductor for Ballet Austin. For Austin Opera, he has conducted "A Streetcar Named Desire," "La Traviata," "Turandot," "The Marriage of Figaro," and "La bohème."
Other positions held by Bay have included Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Music Festival (CO), Britt Festival Orchestra (OR), Hot Springs Music Festival (AR), and posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Richmond Symphony. From 1980 to 1990 he served on the conducting staff of the Aspen Music Festival where he led concerts with four of its orchestras. Bay and the ASO with pianist Anton Nel released a critically acclaimed Bridge CD of Edward Burlingame Hill’s music. With the Richmond Symphony he recorded the US premiere of Britten’s "The Sword in the Stone" for Opus One Records, and with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Voices, featuring the percussion ensemble NEXUS. He is conductor for Christopher Cross’ "Secret Ladder" album and Hanan Townshend’s soundtrack to the 2016 movie "The Vessel."
In 1994, he was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program. He was the first prize winner of the 1980 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition and a prize winner of the 1987 Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra. In July 2012 he appeared in Solo Symphony, a choreographic work created for him by Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks. He was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in May 2016.
Austin Symphony: 'Slavic Splendor II'
Aram Khachaturian — Piano Concerto (Alexandre Dossin, piano)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: 'Slavic Splendor II'
Aram Khachaturian — Piano Concerto (Alexandre Dossin, piano)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
$29-$115
Austin Symphony, 'From Prague with Love'
Antonín Dvořák — Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (Adele Anthony, violin)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 "Prague"
$29-$104
Austin Symphony, 'From Prague with Love'
Antonín Dvořák — Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (Adele Anthony, violin)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 "Prague"
$29-$104
Austin Symphony: Classical Mystery Tour
$29-$114
Austin Symphony: 'USA & the UK'
Benjamin Britten — Piano Concerto, Op. 13
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Serenade to Music
Leonard Bernstein — Chichester Psalms
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: 'USA & the UK'
Benjamin Britten — Piano Concerto, Op. 13
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Serenade to Music
Leonard Bernstein — Chichester Psalms
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: 'Good Things Come in Threes'
Ludwig van Beethoven — Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 (Ahn Trio, soloists)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70, B. 141
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: 'Good Things Come in Threes'
Ludwig van Beethoven — Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 (Ahn Trio, soloists)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70, B. 141
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: Home Alone
$35-$114
Austin Symphony: 'Beethoven Y Amigos'
Reena Esmail — Rosa de Sal
Clarice Assad — Bohemian Queen (Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale"
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: 'Beethoven Y Amigos'
Reena Esmail — Rosa de Sal
Clarice Assad — Bohemian Queen (Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet)
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale"
$29-$115
Austin Symphony: Happy Birthday, by George
George Gershwin — Piano Concerto in F
Ottorino Respighi — Fontane di Roma ("The Fountains of Rome")
Ottorino Respighi — Pini di Roma ("The Pines of Rome")
$29-$104
Austin Symphony: Happy Birthday, by George
George Gershwin — Piano Concerto in F
Ottorino Respighi — Fontane di Roma ("The Fountains of Rome")
Ottorino Respighi — Pini di Roma ("The Pines of Rome")
$29-$104
Austin Symphony: 'Star Wars: A New Hope' in concert
$50-$150
Austin Symphony: Rach Fest II
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
$34-$120
Austin Symphony: Rach Fest I
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
$29-$120
SYMPHONY+: Peter Bay Conducts the ASO
Jennifer Higdon — Low Brass Concerto (with the ASO low brass section)
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, B. 112
$9.99 three-day ticket, $14.99 thirty-day ticket, $49 one-year ticket
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